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This is the area where my understanding of the principles seems to be shaky. The work which I do now is something which I really don’t want to do as a type of activity, and spending time at it reliably produces thoughts of the kind “I hate this”. I understand that this is not the work itself but my thoughts that create unpleasant feelings, but as long as I am sitting down to work, this is the only type of thinking that comes up. Outside of the office, in the moments when I don’t think that I have to do anything for it, there can appear other thoughts and feelings about it. But when I come back to the office, all nice thoughts and feelings fade away and I am back to struggling and suffering.

Hi Lik: Thanks so much for posting this comment and question. I really appreciate your honesty, and I’ll do my best to answer.

Without fail, literally every single time I’m in a low mood it’s because I’m not seeing one or both of these facts: a) that 100 percent of my experience is created from Thought in the moment, and/or b) that I am not my thinking, that I am part of something far greater (“Mind,” in Principles language).

For the past few years, I felt the way you describe when I went to work. I struggled to find a new job and couldn’t do it. I suffered every day at the office, trying to make things better and failing to do so.

When I finally saw that 100 percent of my experience of my job was because I was listening to my thinking and believing it was true (“I hate this work and this office!” “This is the wrong job for me!”), can you guess what happened? It was like the blinders came off, and a new job — with everything I wanted, by the way — was handed to me.

The good feelings fade away at work because you are listening to your personal thinking and believing it to be true; you’re believing it actually has something to do with you. But you are not your thinking. There is no such thing as “hate” when we are made of love. How could love hate anything?

Keep looking in the direction of the formless, the place that’s past your personal thinking, toward who you really are.

Thank you, Mary! Yes, that helps, I can feel it. It reorients me in the direction of the answer, which is along the line “I am not my thinking”, and maybe even deeper understanding that I am made of love. I’ll look there.